Chapter 245: Methods to Improve Rain Ninja's Combat Power
When Bai Ye left the Akatsuki laboratory again, Orochimaru walked to the door respectfully to see him off.

After suffering a great loss, Orochimaru dared not neglect Bai Ye again, fearing that Bai Ye would come back again! His little heart could no longer bear such a great stimulation.

It can be predicted that with such an elusive and powerful boss around, it will be much more difficult for him to change jobs.

However, for now, Orochimaru still likes the atmosphere of Akatsuki very much.

The Akatsuki organization does not have strict management over its subordinate organizations. Although he needs to report to the Hidden Rain Village regularly, he can still stay in the Sound Village most of the time.

The freedom alone is something that the Konohagakure cannot achieve.

Although the other outer members of the organization have their own ulterior motives, they get along much more easily than Konoha, and they care about interests rather than the will of fire.

If I must describe it, Konoha is an old man in his twilight years, without any vitality at all, while Akatsuki is like a young man full of vigor and vitality who can make him feel the competition and vitality of all things.

This feeling was something Orochimaru had never experienced before.

……

Shortly after leaving the Akatsuki laboratory, Bai Ye saw a blue-haired figure on the side of the road.

This person was none other than Konan, one of the four giants of Akatsuki organization. Konan was wearing a Fire Cloud suit and had his hands folded on his chest, as if he had been waiting here for a long time.

At this time, Konan was staring at the Akatsuki base in the distance, lost in thought.

Konan was naturally very familiar with the Akatsuki base built deep in the mountains. That Akatsuki base contained her past memories and familiar companions.

Although the Akatsuki base looked very grand, she felt very unfamiliar with it. The people coming in and out were not her companions, but strangers recruited by Bai Ye.

Although these people are all ninjas of the Akatsuki organization, their composition is very complicated.

Among them are black market killers like Kakuzu and Scorpion of the Red Sand.

She knew that this was something that the organization would inevitably experience as it developed, but she couldn't help but miss the past. After all, there would always be some pain in the process of transforming from an organization to a ninja village.

She was worried that Bai Ye might be influenced by these rebellious ninjas and killers and become more extreme in his behavior.

At this time, Bai Ye had come to Xiaonan's side, looked at the absent-minded Xiaonan and said with a smile: "Xiaonan, how come you have time to come here today? Did Yahiko call another high-level meeting?"

Konan nodded, then said, "Yahiko asked me to come here. He said that the monthly high-level meeting is about to start again, and asked you to go as soon as possible."

After hearing the words "high-level meeting", Bai Ye rolled his eyes: "Why are we holding another high-level meeting? Didn't we just hold the monthly meeting last month?"

Shouldn’t monthly high-level meetings be held every month?

Xiaonan was speechless. After a few seconds of silence, the sadness that had just emerged in her heart disappeared in an instant.

After a few words to dilute Xiaonan's sadness, Bai Ye followed Xiaonan to the Yuyin Building.

In the conference room of the Rain Hidden Building, Yahiko and Nagato had been waiting for a long time. After Bai Ye and Konan entered, the high-level meeting was immediately held.

This high-level meeting mainly focused on two aspects: inside the village and outside the village. In terms of outside the village, the Hidden Rain Village and the Hidden Hot Spring Village signed an unbreakable alliance, and the Hidden Grass Village also signed a trade agreement during the last trip to the Hidden Grass Village and became an ally of the Hidden Grass Village.

Thanks to the signing of the alliance, the three countries now share their resources and have formed a market that is no less powerful than that of major powers.

In the Hidden Rain Village, after several years of development, the Hidden Rain Village has trained hundreds of Genin. These ninjas, equipped with kunai and detonating tags, can exert strength close to that of Chunin.

With so many Chunin fighters, the bottom-level combat power of the Rain Village is already close to that of the Sand Village, which is at the bottom of the five major countries. However, it is still far from the combat power to spread the concept of peace throughout the ninja world.

Yahiko asked Bai Ye to come this time because he wanted Bai Ye to think of ways to further enhance the strength of the Akatsuki organization.

Hearing that Yahiko wanted to improve the fighting power of the Hidden Rain Village, Bai Ye suddenly woke up, then looked at Yahiko with suspicion and said lightly:

"Yahiko, haven't you always been against increasing the number of troops? You said that the village's finances are already stretched to the limit."

Yahiko looked a little embarrassed. In the past few years, the Hidden Rain Village was in a state of development, and its financial situation was naturally not enough to cover its expenses, so it had to cut part of the military budget.

But now, after several years of development, it has taken over the two markets of Soup Kingdom and Grass Kingdom.

The finances of the Hidden Rain Village have become much more abundant, and the signing of trade agreements with the Land of Hot Springs and the Land of Grass has also allowed Yahiko to taste the sweetness of expansion.

At the same time, after visiting and investigating, Yahiko also understood deeply.

No matter how well the Hidden Rain Village develops, it can only help the people of the Rain Country become better off. In addition to the ninjas who wage wars, the nobles and daimyo in the ninja world also bring suffering to the people.

If you want to help people outside the Rain Country, you must increase the combat effectiveness of the Hidden Rain Village, but the population of the Hidden Rain Village is limited. If you want to increase your strength, you must increase the average strength of the Rain Ninjas.

After a moment of silence, Yahiko raised his head and said seriously: "I was too narrow-minded before. If we want to protect the Hidden Rain Village and maintain long-term peace in the ninja world, the village must increase its military strength."

After hearing this, Bai Ye stopped teasing Yahiko and began to analyze for Yahiko seriously.

There are only two ways to improve the average combat effectiveness of the Rain Ninjas. One is to use external means, such as the chakra armor technology of the Snow Country and the kunai gun of the Sky Ninja Village.

Although chakra armor is expensive, it can significantly improve a ninja's defense and chakra capacity.

The Snow Country Ninja in the original time and space used the power of chakra armor to barely fight Hatake Kakashi to a draw.

In addition to this, there is Orochimaru's curse-sealing technique.

Orochimaru's curse seal technique originated from Jūgo, a ninja who was born with the ability to use natural energy. The cells extracted from his body and the way that Ryuchi Cave utilized natural energy can create curse seals.

But it is still unknown whether Orochimaru has found Jūgo at this moment.

Although the risk of transplanting the curse seal is not greater than transplanting Hashirama's cells, there is also a very high risk of death. After much thought, it seems that the Hidden Rain Village can only rely on external forces such as chakra armor.

After thinking for a moment, Bai Ye said to Yahiko: "Yahiko, if we want to improve the combat effectiveness of our troops, we need to start from the Snow Country and the Sky Ninja Village and obtain their chakra technology."

"Attack the Snow Country and the Sky Country?" Yahiko fell into deep thought.

(End of this chapter)